Gardenia Glow climbed out of her bed and glided over to her vanity. She carefully wiped off the mud mask she slept in with a warm, soft towel. The mud made her face soft and her complexion clear. She took pride in her beautiful coat. After studying herself in her mirror for a few minutes she decided that it was time to find some breakfast.
In her kitchen, Gardenia Glow put together a wheatgrass shake for breakfast and sat down to sip it as she resumed reading the book she had started yesterday. It was an adventure story - the first in the Daring Do series by A. K. Yearling. Generally, Gardenia Glow didn't go for adventure stories, but one of her spa patrons had turned her onto the series a year ago and she had been a devoted fan ever since.
One of the girls who worked for her had told Gardenia Glow that Princess Twilight Sparkle was going to start a Daring Do book club. She had eagerly investigated and found out that the first meeting was today. She was excited and was rereading the first book in the series to get in the mood. She had even taken the whole day off, leaving Lotus Blossom in charge at the spa. It had been a little while since she had taken a day off, but already she was enjoying it very much! Hopefully the book club would be as much fun as she hoped.
She hadn't been inside the tree castle Princess Twilight lived in, but she passed it every day on her way to the spa. She was almost as excited about seeing the inside of the castle as she was about getting to share her love of all things Daring Do with other fans!
As she drank her shake and turned the pages of her book, Gardenia Glow smiled with the contentment that only came from a well-earned day off work.